West Virginia is the laboratory of American politics. The white workers felt betrayed by the Democrats. At least until now.
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In West Virginia, one of the poorest states in the United States, Biden’s social and climate protection program, the “Build Back Better” package, is very popular – even among Republican voters.
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With a single sentence, Joe Manchin, the Democratic senator from West Virginia, toppled one of his president’s most important bills. He said no to that, Manchin said of Joe Biden’s trillion-dollar social and climate protection program on television just before Christmas, and on a broadcast on Fox News, the mouthpiece of the Republicans.
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